{"id":916,"date":"2006-07-11T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T16:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/07\/the_art_of_data_visualization\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T16:08:42","slug":"the_art_of_data_visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_art_of_data_visualization.php","title":{"rendered":"The art of data visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;m a sucker for great data visualization &#8212; that is, the graphic representation of statistical information. It may sound extraordinarily boring to some, but a well-designed graph or graphic can truly help people see their world differently, and challenge soft assumption with grounded observation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so intrigued by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">GapMinder<\/a>, an ambitious project that transforms world economic and development statistics into graphical tools for exploration. To see the experiment in action, watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/tedtalks\/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=hans_rosling\">TED Talk by world health expert Hans Rosling<\/a>, where fertility and life expectancy data from the past 40 years play out like some sort of abstract global horserace.<\/p>\n<p>You can also play with the data yourself through the <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.google.com\/gapminder\/\">Gapminder Google Tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I see such complex data sets expressed in such elegant and insightful ways, I&#8217;m struck at how obscure, uninformative, and dense most analysis is for nonprofit organizations. Why can&#8217;t our financial and annual reports strive for such clarity and learning power? And as teams of creative individuals, who better than us to find that better way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;m a sucker for great data visualization &#8212; that is, the graphic representation of statistical information. It may sound extraordinarily boring to some, but a well-designed graph or graphic can truly help people see their world differently, and challenge soft assumption with grounded observation. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so intrigued by GapMinder, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}